The book‚ The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald‚ has some wonderful and extravagant lifestyles portrayed between the pages. The are examples of the many forms of life; the rich‚ high class: Daisy‚ Tom‚ Jordan‚ and Gatsby; The middle class: Nick; and the Lower‚ blue collar‚ working class: George‚ and Myrtle. They all have their stories of what they came from and what they have become. Some have moved down; others have moved up. This movement may be large‚ it may be petite‚ but in either way they
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In the Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald’s cynicism about the american dream in the 1920s is represented by the characters Gatsby‚ Daisy‚ and Nick. America was changing because in the 1920s an era of unexpected prosperity and material excess. Decayed social and moral values. Rising stock market equals lots of newly wealthy people spending money at unprecedented levels. These changes affected fitzgerald’s belief because he believed people had grown cynical‚ greedy‚ and obsessed with the empty pursuit
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Ethan Moran Period 4 Harrell Great Gatsby Chapter 1 Questions- 1) How does the narrator describe Gatsby? – At first the narrator describes him like ”extraordinary gift for hope and a romantic readiness”. 2) From where did the narrator come and why? – The narrator‚ Nick‚ came from the Midwest‚ Minnesota specifically to learn the bond business. 3) Describe the narrators house. - Nick lives a in a small house between two mansions. 4) Describe the Buchanans house. – A gigantic mansion
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Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby begins with an epigraph‚ this epigraph could be interpreted as a poetic device that foreshadows the plot of the novel. “Then wear the gold hat‚ if that will move her...Lover‚ gold-hatted‚ high-bouncing lover..." The poem is a piece of advice that urges the reader to attain wealth for him to gain his love interest’s affections‚ just like Gatsby attained wealth for him to win Daisy’s love. The concept of Gatsby donning a gold hat could be seen as Gatsby putting on his Oxford
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Renowned actor Chris Colfer once said‚ “People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.” By definition‚ a villain is a character in a book‚ play‚ film‚ etc.‚ that harms other people. In The Great Gatsby‚ author F. Scott Fitzgerald displays Jay Gatsby as an everyman‚ who strives to obtain his goals. Gatsby’s determination and values are traits that are admired by Nick‚ the narrator of the book‚ who consistently “finds [himself] on Gatsby’s side.” However‚ due to his naivety
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In this novel the Great Gatsby‚ F. Scott Fitzgerald creates Gatsby as a character who becomes great. He begins life as just an ordinary‚ lower-class‚ citizen. But Gatsby has a dream of becoming wealthy. After meeting Daisy‚ he has a reason to strive to become prominent. Throughout his life‚ Gatsby gains the title of truly being great. Even before Gatsby is introduced‚ he is hinted at being out of the ordinary. The first evidence of this is when Nick says‚ "Gatsby turned out all right at the
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In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby‚ Fitzgerald uses the narrator Nick Carraway to provide the opportunity for readers to recognize and analyze themes and ideas portrayed throughout the novel. Whether it be text-to-self‚ text-to-text‚ or text-to-world‚ there are definitely many text connections that can be made after reading this novel‚ or at least half of it. While reading the novel‚ I noticed that I can very much relate to it. As a high school student‚ and being a teenage girl at that
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The 1920’s were an interesting time in U.S. history. Women were exercising more of their rights‚ the prohibition act came into play and crime was on a rise. In The Great Gatsby you can see social break down very clearly throughout the book. The ones that stood out from the rest to me was about the breaking vowels and promises of marriage or friendship. In the book we find two lovely couples driven by the desires of others; so‚ they were torn apart from each other as they broke the binding of marriage
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In my opinion the most important theme of The Great Gatsby is Friendship. There are so many friendship’s in this novel and it is important to the readers that there are mysteries going on in between these friendships. Without friendship in this novel there is just wealth and that would make the novel less appealing. There are good friendships‚ such as Nick and Tom‚ and there are not so good friendships‚ such as Tom and Gatsby. Friendship is the main theme in this novel. Nick was Gatsby’s only true
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In The Great Gatsby‚ by F. Scott Fitzgerald‚ the narrator vicariously recounts Jay Gatsby’s flaw as his inability to distinguish between reality and illusions‚ which can be seen through his persistent goal of acquiring the wealth and power of the individuals who are considered “old-money.” Although the social hierarchy established by the classification of individuals as either “old-money” or “new-money” made attaining a different status an elusive task‚ Gatsby chooses to ignore this reality. He instead
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